new vocab

It’s amazing how many different words are used in another place that speaks the same language. Sometimes I feel like they are not speaking English… but it all depends on one’s perspective

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

Here are a few words I’ve learned:

Adverts = advertisements
Car park = parking lot
Cheers = thanks/goodbye
Flat = apartment
Football = soccer (who would ever call a sport that uses ones feet FOOTball?)
Jumper = sweater
Lifts = elevators
Loads = many/ a lot (It will be loads of fun!)
Marks = grades
Mates = friends
Mental = crazy, weird
Mobile = cell phone
Modules = classes
Pudding = dessert
Quid = slang for pounds
Rubbish = horrible, trash
Take away = to-go food
Trackies = sweatpants
Uni = University
Wee = a little (a wee cup of tea)
Whilst = while I/you/we were
Wicked = sweet/tight/sick (that was wicked!)